Indian Cooking Recipe: Poricha Kuzhambu
The following are the instructions on how to cook delicious Indian food: Poricha Kuzhambu
Ingredients:
1. Different grains(garbanzo beans, peanuts, channa dal, lima beans etc as desired...just a handful of all together)
2. Salt to taste
3. Urad dhal 3 tsps
4. Channa dal 1 tsp
5. Whole pepper 1 tsp
6. Dry red pepper 2 - 3
7. Dry grated coconut 2 tsps
8. Tamarind extract
9. Jaggery or sugar 1 tsp
Method of Preparation:
If using dry grains soak in water for a couple of hours and pressure cook. If using cooked beans, drain out the water. Can be done using a handful of one particular grain or a combination of the above. Grind together channa dal, whole pepper, red pepper and coconut into a coarse paste (need not be smooth).
In a hard bottomed vessel, sauté dry mustard seeds. Add the tamarind extract dissolved in water and salt and let it boil for sometime. Add the grains and let them absorb the taste from the tamarind water. After this boils for 5-7 minutes, dissolve the ground paste in water and add to the mixture. Add curry leaves; boil further for a minute with a spoon of jaggery or sugar. If it is very watery, add a spoon of rice flour dissolved in a spoon of water to gain thickness. Mix with plain cooked rice and have as main course.
